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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: GOP Race Top Tier Now Romney, Perry and Cain — Three September debates have shaken-up the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Herman Cain has jumped into the top tier. Rick Perry's stumbled. Mitt Romney's holding steady. — And Michele Bachmann is hitting bottom.
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Opinionator:
Is This Man the G.O.P.'s Best Bet for 2012? — Gail Collins: David, are you reconciled to the fact that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee? — David Brooks: Oh, I went through that phase a few weeks ago after the debate at the Reagan library.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Romney addresses his Achilles' heel — Last week, in one of the more amusing political claims of the year, Mitt Romney boasted, “I stand by my positions. I'm proud of them.” Given Romney's record of abandoning every policy position he's ever taken, it was hard not to marvel at his shamelessness.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Political Memo: Romney Endures More G.O.P. Flirtation With Alternatives — WASHINGTON — The Republican who may have the strongest shot of winning the White House, at least in the eyes of President Obama and his advisers, is Mitt Romney. Now, if Mr. Romney could only persuade Republican voters.
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The Politico:
Complex calendar gives Romney edge
Complex calendar gives Romney edge
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Emily Friedman / Politics:
Romney Addresses Flip-Flop Criticism at N.H. Town Hall
Romney Addresses Flip-Flop Criticism at N.H. Town Hall
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Man arrested in ‘step-by-step’ plot to blow up Capitol, Pentagon — The FBI arrested and charged a man Wednesday for allegedly plotting to blow up the Capitol and the Pentagon. — The 26-year-old Massachusetts man, Rezwan Ferdaus, was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation …
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Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Man Is Held in a Plan to Bomb Washington — BOSTON — A 26-year-old man from a town west of Boston was charged Wednesday with plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the United States Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft filled with plastic explosives. — The suspect, Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland …
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The Politico:
Obama's health reform law rests with the Supreme Court — “Unfortunately the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Affordable Care Act's individual responsibility provision. We strongly disagree with their decision and today, the Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to hear this case …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Supreme Court Ruling Could Revive Health Care for 2012 Campaign — The White House's decision to seek a quick ruling on President Obama's landmark health care law will inject the controversial issue back into the nation's political bloodstream at the height of the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case on Health Care Law
Justice Dept. Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case on Health Care Law
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law
Justice Dept. asks Supreme Court to review health-care law
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. appeals on health care (UPDATED)
U.S. appeals on health care (UPDATED)
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Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Is New Jersey Governor Too Overweight to Become President? — For Chris Christie, there was no way around it. “In case you haven't noticed, I'm slightly overweight,” he said during a debate in his successful campaign for governor. — Two years later, Christie is the man …
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Alabama Wins in Ruling on Its Immigration Law — A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama's far-reaching immigration law that had been challenged by the Obama administration, including portions that had been blocked in other states.
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Mackenzie Weinger / The Politico:
Judge OKs key parts of Alabama immigration law
Judge OKs key parts of Alabama immigration law
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Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Germany Approves Expansion of Euro Bailout Fund — BERLIN — The German Parliament approved the expansion of the bailout fund for heavily indebted European countries Thursday, the most important step in a tortuous process that has rattled markets and raised long-term doubts about the ability …
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Spiegel Online:
Euro Crisis — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic.
Euro Crisis — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic.
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Angela Merkel / Finance:
Frau Merkel, it really is a euro crisis
Frau Merkel, it really is a euro crisis
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NewsMax.com:
Rick Perry to Newsmax: I Regret ‘Heartless’ Comment on Immigration — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Presidential candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday apologized for saying …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Rick Perry's wife says scrutiny faced during presidential campaign has been ‘intense’
Rick Perry's wife says scrutiny faced during presidential campaign has been ‘intense’
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Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit — The men showed up in a small town in Australia's outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying in recruits from as far away as London, and busing them from trailers …
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Charlie GrapskiFollow / Daily Kos:
Bologna's Second Attack with Pepper Spray — Gradually the exploits of Detective Inspector Anthony (Tony Baloney) Bologna have eeked their way even into the mainstream media. It has become well known that he engages, in violation of policy, in an O.C. (Pepper) Spray attack on four defenseless women without provocation.
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Amazon Silk:
Introducing Amazon Silk — Today in New York, Amazon introduced Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire. You might be asking, “A browser? Do we really need another one?” As you'll see in the video below, Silk isn't just another browser.
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Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin And Refuse To Listen To The Free Market In The Process — Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money.
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John Rossomando / The Daily Caller:
More solar companies led by Democratic donors received federal loan guarantees — A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees …
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